Warren Buffett’s Bank of America Deal Sparked in the Bathtub

The billionaire investor told CNBC he was in the bathtub Wednesday morning, when he got the idea to approach Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan about an investment in the bank.

The Oracle of Omaha said an assistant phoned a Moynihan aide later that morning to pass on his private number so the two businessmen could talk.

Today, of course, Bank of America announced Buffett had agreed to invest $5 billion in the battered banking giant.

We have no idea if this Buffett anecdote is true. It fits with Buffett’s folksy image, which some critics have said is more fiction than reality. Buffett is worth a very un-folksy $50 billion, after all.